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How Innovify Helped SThree Build Showcaser

How Innovify Helped SThree Build Showcaser: From a Conceptual Video Tool to a Scalable, Cross‑Platform Interviewing Experience

SThree is a global recruitment group operating across specialised STEM sectors, placing tens of thousands of candidates each year. SThree needed a product partner capable of building a high-performance, cloud-native, enterprise-secure video platform from the ground up.
Case Study

Client Overview

SThree is a global recruitment group operating across specialised STEM sectors, placing tens of thousands of candidates each year. As video interviewing became a core part of modern talent acquisition, SThree recognised the need for a solution that went beyond standard video tools. They wanted a platform that allowed candidates to show who they really are, highlight their personality, and stand out in competitive hiring processes—a product that matched their global footprint and reputation for innovation. Showcaser was envisioned as the next step in recruitment technology: a platform-agnostic video experience accessible across web browsers and native mobile apps, offering a seamless, secure way for users to record responses, share answers, and showcase their potential. To achieve this vision, SThree needed a product partner capable of building a high-performance, cloud-native, enterprise-secure video platform from the ground up.

Client:
Sthree
Country:
United Kingdom
Platforms:
Web, Mobile
Industry:
Human Resource and Recruitment

Challenge

Zilch set an ambitious goal: launch a fully compliant digital wallet in just four months. Innovify was tasked with building the platform from the ground up, fast, secure, and ready for scale.

The project came with critical technical and compliance requirements:

  • PCI DSS certification and FCA approval, ensuring full regulatory compliance
  • Ultra-low latency transactions under 250 milliseconds, delivering a seamless user experience.
  • Successful integration of multiple third-party APIs, including GPS, Xero, and CashFlows

The solution is cloud-native, API-first, and built for scalability, enabling Zilch to launch confidently and expand across the UK market. With compliance-by-design and optimized architecture, the product is ready for rapid growth.

SThree wanted to enter the video-interviewing market—but with a clear differentiator. The challenge was multifaceted:

  • Build a platform-agnostic experience across web and native mobile
  • Deliver frictionless video recording, transcoding, and playback
  • Implement secure AWS cloud-based processing
  • Design an infrastructure with micro-permissions to ensure enterprise-grade security
  • Balance innovation, usability, and simplicity in a crowded competitive market

The product needed to stand out through exceptional UX and recruiter-ready reliability, not through feature overload.

Key Objectives

Deliver a fully functional digital wallet within four months

  • Build and deliver a high‑quality MVP
  • Communicate the product value clearly for rapid adoption
  • Implement agile and lean development practices
  • Ensure seamless server‑to‑client data transfer
  • Architect a scalable build to support growing traffic
  • Maintain strict data privacy and security standards
  • Deliver on time and on budget

Solution

Innovify began with a comprehensive discovery workshop to define scope, align stakeholders, and anticipate technical challenges. A dedicated delivery team was assembled to ensure speed and precision throughout the build.

Innovify began with a comprehensive discovery workshop to define scope, align stakeholders, and anticipate technical challenges. A dedicated delivery team was assembled to ensure speed and precision throughout the build.

Innovify began with a comprehensive discovery workshop to define scope, align stakeholders, and anticipate technical challenges. A dedicated delivery team was assembled to ensure speed and precision throughout the build.

Innovify began with a comprehensive discovery workshop to define scope, align stakeholders, and anticipate technical challenges. A dedicated delivery team was assembled to ensure speed and precision throughout the build.

Innovify adopted an innovation design methodology—a structured approach combining discovery, collaboration, and iterative prototyping—to guide the entire product journey.

1. Innovation-Led Discovery

Instead of traditional ad-hoc project management, Innovify ran a series of discovery workshops to:

  • Define user personas
  • Explore problem statements
  • Map user journeys
  • Shape the solution’s core value proposition
  • Identify costs, risks, and success metrics

This produced a targeted, investor-ready MVP plan and a “mini-business case” with clear commercial and user-experience outcomes.

2. Agile MVP Development

Innovify built a sophisticated cross-platform MVP through:

  • Agile sprints and continuous collaboration
  • Rapid usability testing with real target groups
  • Frequent refinement of the product proposition
  • Integration of AWS-based video processing workflows
  • Secure, micro-permission-driven architecture

This ensured technical robustness while keeping user experience central.

3. Enterprise-Grade Delivery Framework

Beyond engineering, Innovify deployed:

  • Agile and Lean practices
  • Scrum methodologies
  • Continuous learning cycles
  • Structured customer collaboration

This helped SThree achieve clarity in vision, speed in execution, and alignment across technical and business teams.

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Results

Zilch set an ambitious goal: launch a fully compliant digital wallet in just four months. Innovify was tasked with building the platform from the ground up, fast, secure, and ready for scale.

The project came with critical technical and compliance requirements:

  • PCI DSS certification and FCA approval, ensuring full regulatory compliance
  • Ultra-low latency transactions under 250 milliseconds, delivering a seamless user experience.
  • Successful integration of multiple third-party APIs, including GPS, Xero, and CashFlows

The solution is cloud-native, API-first, and built for scalability, enabling Zilch to launch confidently and expand across the UK market. With compliance-by-design and optimized architecture, the product is ready for rapid growth.

Showcaser launched as a differentiated video-interviewing solution in a highly competitive market.

Impact Delivered

  • Mature, validated MVP delivered in a three-month window
  • Unique product positioning through deeper user-centred design
  • Faster time-to-market through innovation design and Agile delivery
  • Greater investor confidence in the product’s roadmap and commercial opportunity
  • A scalable foundation for future feature expansion and integrations

Showcaser ultimately gave SThree a standout video interviewing platform purpose-built for recruitment teams—secure, intuitive, and engineered to help candidates shine.

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